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A Great Movement to Col- 
lect ands Save to the State 
and Nation the English and 
Scottish Ballads Surviving in 


this Commonwealth 


Teachers, Pupils and School Patrons 
Asked to Help 


Issued by the Department of Public Instruction | 





RICHMOND 
DAVIS BOTTOM, SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC PRINTING 
1914 


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wealth great. Climate, soil, location and topography are 

hers, as well as traditions and the “breed and disposition” 

of her people. Virginia’s latest revelations of wealth are two 
and both have come as with the miner’s pick. One is material, the 
other spiritual. Witness the great development of coal and iron 
during the past twenty years. That is the material side of our 
story. ‘The spiritual gift, on the other hand, is a literary treasure- 
trove, the ballad,—found also for the most part in our mountains. 
There descendants of the sturdy Scotch-Irish immigrants have kept 
alive those wonderful English and Scottish ballads of the fifteenth 
century—songs which remain today ‘“‘as fresh and moving in their 
simple beauty, as poignant in their pathos and as _ heart-stirring 
in their rude power as when they were first sung.” 

This source of spiritual wealth, this breath of song, fresh as 
the breezes which fan the cheeks of a mountain lassie, is being 
unearthed and restored to the world through the etforts of folk-lore 
societies. ‘The United States Bureau of Education has commis- 
sioned Dr. C. Alphonso Smith, of the University of Virginia, to in- 
stitute a nation-wide search for versions of these old ballads that 
helped to mould the character of men and women who made up 
the larger part of the Colonial population of this country. 

Dr. Smith knows that his home is in the very midst of his 
richest field and he has honored our State school system by insisting 
that the public school teachers are better fitted than any others to 
inaugurate and prosecute the search. He is trying to stimulate 
ballad research in all the States but actually to collect only the 
ballads surviving in Virginia. 

Transmitted entirely by oral tradition, the ballads under the 
influences of modern life already have been driven into remote 
neighborhoods and they will soon be forgotten. I bespeak the 
prompt and active efforts of teachers, pupils and patrons to recover 
this almost forgotten and widely hidden wealth. Gather up the 
fragments eagerly, gladly; gather them up quickly that nothing 
be lost. 


Vent TA is rich in everything that goes to make a Common- 


“Tn the highlands, in the country places, 
Where the old plain men have rosy faces 
And the young fair maidens 
Quiet eyes; 
Where essential silence cheers and blesses, 
And forever in the hill recesses 
Her more lovely music 
Broods and dies.” 


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There lies the treasure-trove to which I refer; and who will 
refuse to share the find with all the world which is waiting for it 
from the king upon his throne to the gardener in his cottage? 

R. C. STEARNEs, 
Superintendent of Publie Instruction 


A Great Movement in Which Everyone 
Can Help 


_ By C. Atpuonso Surru, President of the Virginia Folk-Lore 
Society, University, Va. 


ENGLISH AND Scorrisn Batiaps.—One of the greatest pieces of 
research work ever done by an American was Prof. Francis J. 
Child’s edition in 10 parts of “The English and Scottish Popular 
Ballads” (1882-1898). He found that there were 305 of these old 
ballads, and nobody has yet succeeded in increasing or diminishing 
this number. You will find all of these ballads (except 5) and 
many variants of them in a single volume called “English and Scot- 
tish Popular Ballads,” edited by Helen Child Sargent and George 
Lyman Kittredge (Boston, 1904). 


ENGLISH AND Scottish Batuaps Surviving In AmeErtIcA—An 
interesting discovery made in recent years is that many of these 
old ballads were brought by the earliest settlers to the United States 
and have been kept alive through oral tradition ever since. Prof. 
Child made no studied attempt to collect these American survivals, 
noting them only incidentally. He reports. if mv count is correct, 
2 in Maine, 2 in New Hampshire, 10 in Massachusetts, 5 in New 
York, 1 in Pennsylvania, 1 in Maryland, 4 in Virginia, 4 in North 
Carolina, and 1 in South Carolina. If we omit duplicates, the total 
is only 17. Now, however, at least 56 of the ballads in Prof. Child’s 
list have been found in the United States and the search has hardly 
begun. i, 

ImporTance or CoLiEcTING AMERICAN SuRVIVALS.—Sidnev 
Lanier did not overstate it when he said of these old ballads, “T 
know that he who walks in the way these following ballads point 
will be manful in necessary fight, fair in trade, loyal in love, gener- 
ous to the poor, tender in the household, prudent in living, plain 
in speech. merry upon occasion, simple in behavior, and honest in 
all things.” But if our American versions are not collected quickly 
they can never be collected at all. It is now or never. Many in- 
fluences are tending to obliterate them. Catchy, but empty, songs 
not worthy of comparison with them, the decadence of communal 
singing, the growing diversity of interests, the appeal to what is 
divisive and separative in our national life, the presence of the art1- 
ficial and self-conscious in modern writing are depriving our homes 
and schoolrooms of a kind of literature which, for community of 
feeling, for vigor of narrative, for vividness of portraiture, and for 
- utter simplicity of style and content is not surpassed in the whole 
history of English or American song. 


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Gia Varginia Foth-Lore Society 


THe Virernta Foix-Lore Socirery.—The Virginia Folk-Lore 
Society was organized in Richmond, April 17, 1913. Its main pur- 
pose, for the present at least, will be to collect and thus to save to 
the State and Nation the English and Scottish ballads surviving 
in Virginia. Twenty-six of the original 305 ballads have, in whole 
or in part, already been found in Virginia. No other single State 
has reported so large a number. Five of those reported from Vir- 
ginia have been found nowhere else in the United States. This is 
an excellent beginning and fully justifies the statement made in our 
first Bulletin: “No State in the Union offers so rich a field for the 
student of folk-lore as Virginia.” But only seventeen counties have 
been heard from, and one of these, Rockingham, has furnished 
exactly half of the ballads thus far found. There is no reason to 
think that Rockingham has more ballads than any other county, but 
it has been more intellingently and systematically worked. There 
is also no reason to think that Tidewater Virginia has fewer bal- 
lads than the portions of the State lying farther west, but the Tide- 
water counties are almost unrepresented in our list of finds. Enough 
ballads have been collected, however, from the different secfions 
of the State to convince the members of the Virginia Folk-Lore 
Society that no county need go unrepresented. The great need is 
for intelligent co-operation. This is an educational work in which 
all can help who will. The teachers of the State, however, espe- 
cially those in the common schools, can help most effectively. 

How You Can Herp.—You can help by reading carefully the 
subjoined list of the 305 English and Scottish ballads and by send- 
ing to the President of the Vir ginia Folk-Lore Society, at the Uni- 
versity of Virginia, any version or versions of these ballads that you 
may know. If they are all unfamiliar to you, perhaps there is a 
pupil in your school, or a parent, or a patron. or a friend not con- 
nected with the school, who knows or is likely to know several of 
them. The report even of a fragment will be welcome. You will 
be surprised to find that many versions of these old ballads are at 
vour very door or may be obtained by a little effort and tact. Write 
the ballad down just as it is sung, mistakes and all, and tell when, 
where, and from whom it was learned. Send the music, too, if you 
ean. Remember that two versions of the same ballad are almost as 
valuable as two different ballads. Nothing learned from books is 
wanted. 


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Tue Competes List.—Here are the titles in alphabetical order 
of the 305 English and Scottish ballads collected and numbered by 
Professor Child, his numbering being retained. The different names 
under which some of these ballads go are given in parentheses. The 
starred ballads are those that have been found in one or more ver- 
sions in Virginia. Please keep this list for reference. 


Adam Bell, Clim of the Clough, and 
William of Cloudesly, 116. 

Alison and Willie, 256 (My Love She 
Lives in Lincolnshire). 

Alison Gross, 35. 

Andrew Laminie, 233 (The Trumpe- 
ter of Fyvie). 

Archie o’ Cawfield, 188. 

Auld Matrons, 249. 

Babylon. 14 (The Bonnie Banks o’ 
Fordie). 

The Baffled Knight, 112 (The Over 
Courteous Knight). 

The Bailiff's Daughter of Islington, 
105 (True Love Requited). 

The Baron of Brackley, 203. 

The Baron o’ Leys, 241. 

The Battle of Harlaw, 163. 

The Battle of Otterburn, 161. 

The Battle of Philiphaugh, 202. 

The Beggar-Laddie, 202 (The Shep- 
herd Boy). 

The Bent sae Brown, 71. 

*Bessie Bell and Mary Gray, 201. 

Bewick and Graham, 211. 

Blancheflour and Jellyflorice, 300. 

The Bold Pedlar and Robin Hood, 
132; 

Bonnie Annie, 24 (The High Banks 
o’ Yarrow). 

Bonny Baby Livingston, 222 (Bar- 
bara Livingston). 

*Bonny Barbara Allan, 84 (Barbara 
Allen’s Cruelty, Barbara  Hllen, 
Barbro Allen). 

Bonny Bee Hom, 92. 

The Bonny Birdy, 82. 

The Bonny EHarl of Murray, 181. 

The Bonny Hind, 50. 

The Bonnie House o’ Airlie, 199. 


Bonnie James Campbell, 210 (Bonnie 
George Campbell). 

Bonny John Seton, 198. 

The Bonny Lass of Anglesey, 220. 

Bonnie Lizie Baillie, 227. 

Bothwell Bridge, 206. 

The Boy and the Mantle, 29. 

The Braes o’ Yarrow, 214 
Dowy Houms o’ Yarrow). 


(The 


The Broom of Cowdenknows, 217 
(The Laird of Knotington, Bonny 
May). 

The Broomfield Hill, 43 
sere ll Wager): 

Broughty Wa’s, 258 (Burd Helen). 

Brown Adam, 98 (Brown Edom). 

The Brown Girl, 295 (The Bonny 
Brown Girl). 

Brown Robin, 97 (Love Robbie). 

Brown Robyn’s Confession, 57. 

Burd Ellen and Young Tamlane, 28. 

Burd Isabel and Earl] Patrick, 257 
(Burd Bell). 

Captain Car, 178 (Edom o’ Gordon). 

Captain Ward and the Rainbow, 287. 

Captain Wedderburn’s Courtship, 
46 (The Earl of Rosslyn’s Daugh- 
ter). 

The Carnal and the Crane, 55. 

Charlie MacPherson, 234. 

The Cherry-Tree Carol, 54 (Joseph 
Was an Old Man). 


Child Maurice, 83 
Gil Morice). 
Child Owlet, 291. 
Child Waters, 63 (Burd Ellen). 

Christopher White, 108. 
Clerk Colvill, 42 (The Mermaid). 
Clerk Saunders, 69. 


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The Clerk’s Twa Sons o’ Owsenford, 
72. 

Clyde’s Water, 216 (The Mother’s 
Malison, Willie and May Marga- 
ret). 

The Coble o’ Cargill, 242. 

The Crafty Farmer, 283 (The Crafty 
Miller). 

Crow ‘andy Pies I: 

The Crue] Brother, 11 (The Bride’s 


Testament). 
*The Cruel Mother, 20 (The Duke’s 
Daughter’ s Cruelty, Greenwood 


Side, Three Little Babes). 

*The Daemon Lover, 243 
Harris, The House Carpenter, 
‘Carpenter’s Wife). 

The Death of Parcy Reed, 193. 

The Death of Queen Jane, 170 (Queen 
Jeanie). 

Dick o’ the Cow, 185. 

Dives and Lazarus, 56. 

Drumclog, 205 (Loudon Ges 

Dugall Quin, 294 (Donald McQueen’s 
Flight wi Lizie Menzie). 

The Duke of Athole’s Nurse, 212. 

The Duke of Gordon’s Daughter, 237 
(The Duke of Gordon’s Three 
Daughters). 

Durham Field, 159. 

Earl Bothwell, 174. 

*Harl: Brand, 7 (The Douglas Tra- 
gedy, Fair Ellender, The Seven 
Brothers, Sweet William and Fair 
Ellen, The Child of Ell). 

Earl Crawford, 229. 

The Earl of Aboyne, 235. 

het Warl’-of..Wirrol +231 (Kate Car- 
negie). 

The Harl of Mar’s Daughter, 270, 

The Earl of Westmoreland, 177. 

Earl Rothes, 297. 

*Kdward, 13 (What is that on the 
end of your sword?) 

The Elfin Knight, 2 (The Wind Hath 
Blown my Plaid Away, The Cam- 
bric Shirt). 


(James 
The 


Eppie Morrie, 228. 

Erlinton, 8. 

Fair Annie, 62 (Lord Thomas and - 
Fair Annie, Burd Helen, Lady 
Jane). 

The Fair Flower of Northumberland, 
9 (The Ungrateful Knight and the 
Fair Flower of Northumberland). 

Fair Janet, 64 (Fair Janet and 
Sweet William). : 

*Kair Margaret and Sweet William, 
74 (Margaret’s Ghost, Lady Mar- 
get, William and Margaret). 

Fair Mary of Wallington, 91 (The 
Bonny Earl of Livingston). 

The False Knight Upon the Road, 
3. 

The False Lover Won Back, 218 
(The Place Where My Love John- 
ny Dwells). 

The Famous Flower of 
Men, 106. 

The Farmer’s Curst Wife, 278° (The 
Old Man Under the Hill, A Wo- 
man and the Devil). 

Fause Foodrage, 89 (The Eastmure 
King and the Westmure King). 

The Fire of Frendraught, 196. 

Flodden Field, 168. | 

The Friar in the Well, 276 (The 
Friar Well Fitted, The Friar and 
Fair Maid). 

The Gardener, 219. 

The Gay Goshawk, 96. 

Geordie, 209 (The Laird of Gigh, 
Georgia). 

The George Aloe and the Sweep- 
stake, 285. 

A Gest of Robyn Hode, 117. 

Get Up and Bar the Door, 275 (John 
Blunt). 

Gil Brenton, 5. 

Glasgerion, 67. (Glenkindie). 

Glasgow Peggie, 228. 


Glenlogie, 238 (Jean o’ Bethelnie). 
*The Golden Vanity, 286 (The Low 


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‘Lands Low, The Sweet Trinity, 
~ The French Galley, The Little 


Cabin Boy, The Green Willow 
Tree, The Yellow Golden Tree). 
The Great Silkie of Sule Skerry, 
113, 

The Grey Cock, 248 (Saw You My 
Father?). 

Gude Wallace, 157 (Sir William 
Wallace). 


The Gypsy Laddie, 200 (Johnny Faa, 
The Gypsy Davy, The Gypsy Dai- 
sy, Lord Garrick, Black Jack Da- 
ley). 

The Heir of Linne, 267. 

Henry Martyn, 250 (Andrew Bartin, 
Andy Bardan). 

Hind Etin, 41 (Young Akin) 

Hind Horn, 17. 

Hobie Noble, 189. 

The Holy Nunnery, 303. 

Hugh Spencer’s Feats in France, 158 
(Hugh Spencer). 


Hughie Grame, 191 (The Life and. 


Death of Sir Hugh of the Grime). 

The Hunting of the Cheviot, 162 
(Chevy Chase). 

James Grant, 197. 

James Hatley, 244 (Jamie O’Lee). 

Jamie Douglas, 204 (Lord Douglas, 
The Laird of Blackwood). 

Jamie Telfer in the Fair Dodhead, 
OU. ay 

Jellon Grame, 90 Crd tLea iy). 

The Jew’s Daughter, 155 (Sir 
Hugh, Hugh of Lincoln, The Jew’s 
Garden, Little Harry Hughes and 
the Duke’s Daughter). 

Jock o’ the Side, 187 (John a Side). 

Jock the Leg and the Merry Mer- 
chant, 282. 

John Dory, 284. 

*John of Hazelgreen, 293 (Jock 0’- 
Hazelgreen. ) 

John Thomson and the Turk, 266. 

Johnie Armstrong, 169 (Johny Arm- 


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strong’s Last Goodnight). 
Johnie Cock, 114 (Johnie of Cock- 
erslee). 
Johnie Scott, 99 
Scot). 
The Jolly Beggar, 279. 
The Jolly Pinder of Wakefield, 124. 
Judase 2s. 


(Jack, the Little 


‘Katherine Jaffray, 221 (The Laird of 


Laminton). 

The Keach i che Creel, 281. 

Kemp Owyne, 34 (Kempion). 

Kempyo kay 33: | 

King Arthur and King Cornwall, 30. 

king Edward the Fourth and a Tan- 
nereor Lamworth, 273. 

King E'stmere, 60. 

King Henry, 32. 

King Henry Fifth's 
France, 164. 

King James and Brown, 180. 

King John and the Bishop, 45 (King 
john and the Abbot of Canter- 
bury). 

King Orfeo, 19. 


Conquest. of 


The King’s Disguise and Friendship 


with Robin Hood, 151. 

The King’s Dochter Lady Jean, 52. 

Kinmont Willie, 186. 

The Kitchie-Boy, 252. 

The Knight and Shepherd’s Daugh- 
ter, 110 (The Beautiful Shepherd- 
ess of Arcadia). 

The Knight of Liddesdale, 160. 

The Knight’s Ghost, 265. 

The Lads of Wamphray, 184. 

*Lady Alice, 85 (Giles Collins, Geo. 
Collins). 

Lady Diamond, 269 (Lady Daisy). 

Lady Elspat, 247. 

Lady Isabel, 261. 

*Lady Isabel and the Elf Knight, 4 
(The Gowans Sae Gay, The Water 
o’ Wearie’s Well, May Collin, Pret- 
ty Polly, The King’s Daughter, Six 
Pretty Fair Maids, The Six Kings’ 





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Daughters, The Seventh King’s *Lord Randal, 12 (Lord Donald, The 
Daughter, The Pretty Golden Rope and the Gallows, Lord Lan. 
Queen). toun, Sweet William, Fair Elson, 


Lady Maisry, 65. 

The Lady of Arngosk, 224. 

The Laily Worm and the Machrel of 
the Sea, 36. 

The Laird o Drum, 236. 

The Laird o Logie, 182 (The Young 
Laird of Ochiltrie). 

The Laird of Wariston, 194. 

Lamkin, 93 (Lambert Linkin, Long 
Longkin ).. 

Lang Johnny More, 251. 

*The Lass of Roch Royal, 76 (Fair 
Isabel of Roch Royal, Fair Anny, 
Cold Winter’s Night, Bosom Friend, 
Lover’s Farewell). 

15 (The 


Leesome' Brand, Broom 


Blooms Bonnie). 

Little John a Begging, 142 (Little 
John and the Four Beggars). 

Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard, 
81 (Lord Vanner’s Wife, 
Daniel’s Wife). 

Lizie Lindsay, 226 (Donald of the 
Isles). 

Lizie Wan, 51. 

The Lochmaben Harper, 192 (The 
Blind Harper). 

Lord Delamere, 207 (The Long-Arm- 
ed Dukey. 

Lord Derwentwater, 208 (Lord Dun- 
waters). 

Lord Ingram and Chiel Wyet, 66 
(Lord Ingram and Gil Viett). 

Lord Livingston, 262. 

*fLord Lovel, 75 (Lady Ouncebell, 
Lord Lavel, Lord Lovely, Lord 
Lovinder ). 

Lord Lundy, 254 
Sweet. William). 

Lord Maxwell’s Last Goodnight, 195. 

The Lord.of Lorn and the False 
Steward, 271. 


(Lord William, 


Lord ~ 


Sweet Nelson, Teronto, Tyrante, 
Tyranting, Terence, Orlando, Du- 
rango, Fileander). 

Lord Saltoun and Auchanachie, 239. 

*Lord Thomas and Fair Annet, 73 
(Lord Thomas and Fair Ellinor, 
Fair Ellender and the Brown Girl, 
Thomas and Ellender, Little F)- 
eanor). 

Lord Thomas and Lady Margaret, 
260. 

Lord Thomas Stuart, 259. 

The Maid and the Paimer, 21 ( The 
Samaritan Woman). 

“ine Maid Freed fiom the Gallows, 
95 (The Hangman’s Tree). 

‘‘he Marriage of Sir Gawain, 31. 

Mary Hamilton, 173. 


*The Mermaid, 289 (The Seamen’s 
Distress, The Stormy Winds Do 
Blow, Shipwreck). 


Musseiburgh Field, 172. 

The New Slain Knight, 263. 

Northumberland Betrayed by Doug- 
las, 176. 

Old Robin of Portingale, 80. 

*Our Goodman, 274 (The Merry 
Cuckold and Kind Wife, The Old 
Man). 

The Outlaw Murray, 305. 

Prince Heathen, 104 (The Disconso- 
late Lady). 

Prince Robert, 87 (Earl Robert). 

Proud Lady Margaret, 47 (Fair Mar- 
garet). 

Queen Eleanor’s Confession, 156. 

The Queen of Elfan’s Nourice, 40. 

The Queen of Scotland, 301. 

The .Rantin Laddie, 240 
Aboyne). 


(Lord 


Rare Willie Drowned in Yarrow, 215 
(The Water o’ Gamrie, Willie’s 
Rare and Willie’s Fair. 


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Redesdale and Wise William, 246. 

Richie Story, 232. 

Riddles Wisely Expounded, 1 (The 
Cambric Shirt). ; 

‘The Rising in the North, 175. 

Rob Roy, 225. 

Robin Hood and Allen a Dale, 138. 

Robin Hood and Guy of Gisborne, 
118. | 

*Robin Hood and Little John, 125. 

Robin Hood and Maid Marian, 150. 

Robin Hood and Queen Katherine, 
145 (Renowned Robin Hood). 

Robin Hood and the Beggar, I, 133; 
Robin Hood and the Beggar, II, 
134. 

Robin Hood and the Bishop, 143. 

Robin Hood and the Bishop of Here- 
ford, 144. 

Robin Hood and the Butcher, 122. 

Robin Hood and the Curtal Friar, 
123 (Robin Hood and Friar Tuck). 

Robin Hood and the Golden Arrow, 
152. 

Robin Hood and the Monk, 118. 

Robin Hood and the Pedlars, 1387. 

Robin Hood and the Potter, 121. 

Robin Hood and the Prince of Ara- 
gon, 129 (Robin Hood, Will Scad- 
lock and Little John). 

Robin Hood and the Ranger, 181. 

Robin Hood and the Scotchman, 130. 

Robin Hood and the Shepherd, 135. 

*Robin Hood and the Tanner, 126 
(Robin Hood and Arthur o’ Bland) 

Robin Hood and the Tinker, 127. 

Robin Hood and the Valiant Knight, 
Tbe: 

Robin Hood Newly Revived, 128. 

Robin Hood Rescuing Three Squires, 
140 (Robin Hood Rescuing the 
Widow’s Three Sons). 

*Robin Hood Rescuing Will Stutly, 
141. 

Robin Hood’s Birth, Breeding, Valor, 
and Marriage, 149. 


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Robin Hood’s Chase, 146. 

*Robin Hood’s Death, 120. 

Robin Hood’s Delight, 136. 

Robin Hood’s Golden Prize, 147. 

Robin Hood’s Preferment, 148 (The 
Noble Fisherman). 

Robin Hood’s Progress to Notting- 
ham, 139. 

Robyn and Gandeleyn, 115. 

Rookhope Ryde, 179. 

The Rose of England, 166. 

Rose the Red and White Lily, 103. 

St. Stephen and Herod, 22. 

Sheath and Knife, 16. 

Sir: Aldingar,. 099 .0oLh 
Blond). 

Sir Andrew Barton, 167. 

Sir Cawline, 61. 

Sir James the Rose, 213. 

Sir John Butler, 165. 

*Sir Lionel, 18 (Isaac-a-Bell and 
Hugh the Graeme, Old Bangum, 
Bangum and the Boar). 

Sir Patrick Spens, 58 (Sir Patrick 
Spence). 

The Slaughter of the Laird of Mel- 


Hughie 


lerstain, 230. 

The Suffolk Miracle, 272. 

Sweet William’s Ghost, 

Tam Lin, 39. 

Thomas Cromwell, 171. 

Thomas O’ Yonderdale, 253. 

Thomas Rymer, 37. 

The Three Ravens, 26 
Corbies). 

Tom Potts, 109. 

Trooper and Maid, 299. 

A True Tale of Robin Hood, 154. 

The Twa Brothers, 49 (Little Wil- 
lie). 

The Twa Knights, 268. 

The Twa Magicians, 44. 

*The Twa Sisters, 10 (Lord of Old 
Country, The Old Man in the North 
Countree, the Miller and the King’s 
Daughter). 

The Unquiet Grave, 78. 


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Walter Lesly, 296. 

The Wee Wee Man, 38. 

The West-Country Damosel’s 
plaint, 292. 

The White Fisher, 264. 

The Whummil Bore, 27. 

The Wife of Usheér’s Well, 79 (Lady 
Gay, The Widow-Woman, Three 
Little Babes, The Lone Widow). 

“The Wife Wrapt in Wether’s Skin, 
277 (Dandoo, Sweet Robin, Robin 
He’s Gane to the Wude). 

Will Stewart and John, 107. 

Willie and Earl Richard’s Daughter, 
102 (The Birth of Robin Hood). 

Willie and Lady Maisry, 70 (Willie 
the Widow’s Son). 

Willie Macintosh, 188 (The Burning 
of Auchindown). ; 

Willie o’ Douglas Dale, 101. 

Willie o’ Winsbury, 100. 

Willie’s Fatal Visit, 255. 

Willie’s Lady, 6. 


Coni- 


Willie’s Lyke-Wake, 25. 
The Wylie Wife of the Hie Toun- 
Hie, 290, "3 


Young Allan, 245. 

Young Andrew, 48. 

Young Bearwell, 302. 

*Young Beichan, 53 (Lord Bacon, 
Lord Bateman, Lord Bakeman, The 
Turkish Lady, Lord Beham, Young. 
Bekie). 


Young Benjie, 86. 

The Young Har] of Essex’s Victory 
Over the Emperor of Germany, 
288 (Queen Elizabeth’s Champion) 


Young Hunting, 68 (Loving Henry, 
Sweet William and Fair Ellender). 


Young Johnstone, 88 (The Cruel. 


Knight). 
Young Peggy, 298. 


Young Ronald, 304. 
Young Waters, 94. 


OFFICERS OF THE VIRGINIA FOLK-LORE SOCIETY: 
President—Prorressor C. ALPHoNsSo SmiTH, University of Virginia. 
Secretary and Treasurer—PRoFESSOR WALTER A. Montgomery, Richmond 


College, Richmond. 


Vice-Presidents—Prorressor Grorck M. Bain, Norfolk High School, Norfolk; 
PRoressor W. 8. CurRELL, Washington and Lee University, Lexington ; 
Miss.Martua M. Davis, Harrisonburg High School, Harrisonburg; 
Proressor J. M. Gratnarr, State Female Normal School, Farmville; 
PresipEnt E. H. Russerz, State Normal and Industrial School,Fredericksburg 


Miss JANE RUTHERFORD, Richmond. 


